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October 29, 2012

Reynoso Not on Page with Prop 31's CCMS Bashing

Former Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso says he’s a big
proponent of state government reforms, but don’t call him a hater of the
judiciary’s Court Case Management System.

Reynoso, as we reported
, signed the ballot argument in favor of Proposition 31, a Nov. 6 ballot initiative that would overhaul
California’s budgeting practices. That argument, included in information
pamphlets sent to 17 million registered voters, cited the defunct CCMS as an
example of the costly government waste Prop 31 would stop.

Late Friday Reynoso called to say that he is no critic of
CCMS.

“I had some quarrel with some of the ballot arguments because
there’s too much tendency, I think, to blame waste in government,” Reynoso said.

Reynoso, a professor emeritus at UC-Davis
School of Law, serves on the leadership council of the group that drafted Prop
31, California Forward. The former justice said he supports the nonpartisan
group’s efforts to promote fixes to the state’s “dysfunctional” government.
Signing the ballot argument, when asked, “was quite natural for me,” he said.

Reynoso said he didn’t agree with the critique of CCMS
but felt the overall message of supporting Prop 31 was a worthy one.

“When you’re working with other folks, you don’t
always have full control of the message,” he said.

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